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Chelsea Manning eyes U.S. Senate seat for Maryland
Chelsea Manning, the transgender U.S. Army soldier who served seven years in military prison for leaking classified data, is seeking the Democratic Party's nomination for the U.S. Senate seat from Maryland, according to Federal election filings seen on Saturday.
[...] Democratic Senator Ben Cardin was elected in 2006 to that seat and is expected to run for re-election this year. He is the senior Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Cardin was easily re-elected in 2012, beating his Republican challenger by 30 points in the heavily-Democratic state.
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(Score: 2, Offtopic) by canopic jug on Tuesday January 16 2018, @06:19AM (1 child)
I found his writings unnoteworthy except for their provenance. His speaking is underwhelming and not something you'd want in the senate going against articulate opponents. In one panel he said barely a peep and when he did it was not relevant and barely on topic. I can see the Republicans eagerly bankrolling his campaign.
I know the bigoted things you say make sense to you, but it's really you who have the emotional problem with accepting the experience of other people. Your typical misgendering of her is extremely petty and counterproductive.
And right on schedule, out pops the name calling. It might work on your fellow high school students but going ad hominem indicates that you've lost and concede.
Like I said, if he wants to ponce about in women's clothes, technically that's his right, and if you want him to run for office, that's your right, too. However, don't ask the world to try to play along with phantastical abuse of language just to push a misguided agenda. Save your fake rage for the scum running the industries that are filling the biosphere and food with hormone mimic contaminants.
Money is not free speech. Elections should not be auctions.
(Score: 2) by canopic jug on Tuesday January 30 2018, @09:19AM
Since he is running for office, his communication skills are most certainly on topic. He will have to write and speak as part of the campaign and if he makes it into office by knocking out a senior Democrat. Being so weak in both is an extreme liability which will hurt the party's influence, above and beyond losing the seniority. Which is more important pushing an anti-social, gay, niche agenda or democracy?
Money is not free speech. Elections should not be auctions.